[quote]Originally posted by jianfish9:
I think to force people to do CIP is quite
lame.
I agree. In the end it puts a limit to what you can do.
if you really want to help people, then you put in real effort to
do it. It isn't just because you 'finish' your quota liao, then no
need to put effort into it.
And if you are really looking at it, 5 hours of contributing your
time in how many months?! You eat lunch also take more time than
that liao.
Put yourselves in the shoes of the charity organisers. Let's say
you spent some time and effort to administrate and organise a flag
day. You use student volunteers because it can help them achieve
their CIP, as well as help you cos you need volunteers. However,
some students are doing it simply to fulfil their CIP hours, and do
a shoddy job, or maybe even 'keng' time off when they supposed to
collect donations. They come back with their tins hardly filled or
far less than that the targeted amount, and there are people
WAITING for these donations to make their lives a little better.
You can't organise another flag day soon cos there are only this
many flag days available for soooo many charities. the entire flag
day becomes a failure cos insufficient donation is collected.
However, I do agree they handled the situation less than
favourably. What they SHOULD have done is perhaps not to forfeit
ALL 5 hours, but to give you a 'portion' of your time in accordance
to the amount you collected. They should also tell you before hand
that this is a target amount, after which your time will be
discounted. Perhaps you can give these suggestions to your teacher
that can reflect back to the charity org.
